Women’s Golf Opens Season at Sam Golden Invitational

Mizzou girls’s golf opens the 2025-26 season on Monday on the Sam Golden Invitational.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Thirteen groups are set to compete at Oakmont Country Club in Corinth, Texas, beginning with 36 holes on Monday. First spherical play begins at 8:30 a.m. CT with spherical two instantly to observe. The match will conclude on Tuesday with the ultimate spherical starting at 8 a.m.

The Tigers are joined within the subject by Texas Tech, Kansas State, Mizzou, Louisville, Nebraska, Tulsa, Texas State, New Mexico State, UTSA, Middle Tennessee, Tulane, Central Arkansas and host North Texas.

The par-72 course at Oakmont measures 6,343 yards in size.

RETURNING TIGERS

Missouri returns to motion after ending final season ranked No. 64 nationally. The rating continues the upward trajectory of this system which was ranked No. 120, No. 89 and No. 79, respectively, every of the earlier three years.

Missouri completed with a 297.0 stroke common in 2024-25, which ranked seventh all-time in program historical past. The mark follows the all-time document of 293.1 set in the course of the 2023-24 marketing campaign.

Junior Fleur van Beek and senior Melanie Walker headline the Tigers’ returning roster. Walker enters her senior yr with the fifth-best stroke common in class historical past (74.25) after tying this system document for finest 18-hole rating on the SEC Championships (68) final season.

Van Beek led the Missouri returners with a 74.71 stroke common a season in the past. The junior posted the Tenth-best single-season stroke common and third-best freshman rating in 2023-24 (73.70).

Three freshmen are poised to make their Tiger debut this yr, Aliya Liberatore, Ebba Liljeberg and Addie Surber.

Lijeberg and Surber will make their collegiate debuts on Monday.

MIZZOU LINEUP

1. Addie Dobson

2. Ebba Lijeberg

3. Melanie Walker

4. Fleur van Beek

5. Addie Surber

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